Staff Software Engineer, Ads Platform, Level 6

Snap
Santa Monica, CA

Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Ads Platform team at Snap.

What youll do:

  • Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks and conversion and value for advertisers.

  • Work end-to-end across innovating new ads product format ideas or infrastructure ideas experimentation analysis and optimization

  • Work across teams to understand product requirements evaluate trade-offs and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services

  • Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability scalability operational excellence and cost management

  • Provide technical direction that influences the entire company

  • Work across teams to understand product requirements evaluate trade-offs and deliver the solutions needed to support Snaps performance advertising suite

  • Technical influence that spans the entire company

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

  • Excellent programming and software design skills including debugging performance analysis and test design

  • Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale

  • Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technology and apply them at work

  • Skilled at solving ambiguous problems

  • Strong collaboration and mentorship skills

  • Ads domain expertise and a strong interest in Ads

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelors in technical field such as computer science mathematics statistics or equivalent years of experience

  • 9 years of industry experience

  • 2 years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization

  • Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects

  • Experience architecting designing and developing distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects

  • Proven track record of delivering large scale projects in attribution and measurement

  • Experience operating highly-available systems at significant scale

  • Experience with backend services or distributed systems

  • Ads domain experience

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please dont be shy and provide us some information .

Default Together Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster reinforce our values and serve our community customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this we practice a default together approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4 days per week.

At Snap we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race religious creed color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression pregnancy childbirth and breastfeeding age sexual orientation military or veteran status or any other protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. EOE including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring where applicable).

Compensation

In the United States work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidates starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications work location and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

The base salary range for this position is $229000-$343000 annually.

The base salary range for this position is $218000-$326000 annually.

:

The base salary range for this position is $195000-$292000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

Required Experience:

Staff IC

Posted 2025-11-21

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